kids encyclopedia robot

Image: Adam Schall

Kids Encyclopedia Facts
Original image ‎(858 × 1,282 pixels, file size: 1.19 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Description: A portrait of German Jesuit Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592–1666), who was a Jesuit missionary in China (Ming and Qing dynasties) from 1622 to his death in 1666. Hand-colored engraving, 31.1 x 21 cm.
Title: Adam Schall
Credit: "P. Adam Schall Germanus I. Ordinis Mandarinus" ("Father Adam Schall, the German mandarin of the first order"), 1667, from Athanasius Kircher, Tooneel van China..., trans. Jan Hendrick Glazemaker (Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1668), plate Bb, after page 138. Scanned from Marcia Reed, "A Perfume is Best from Afar: Publishing China for Europe," in China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, ed. by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007), p. 15.
Author: Unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No

The following page links to this image:

kids search engine
All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise.